When summer tourism heats up, Mediterranean monk seals take refuge in hidden underwater “bubble caves”—less-than-ideal hangout spots compared to their typically larger, more accessible caves. The ...

During the entire monitoring period, the team observed the seals using the bubble cave for 119 days and the main cave for just 30 days. Inside the bubble caves, the animals were seen either floating ...

A clever survival strategy may be giving one of the world's most threatened seal species a much-needed edge, and scientists say the discovery could help protect the species while easing pressure in a ...

The voluminous noise the bubbles make is not the noise of them bursting in water but the noise of them resuming their natural shapes when released into water after having been frozen misshapen from ...

An adorable seal was seen playing with a diver as he blew bubbles in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria. Jules Casey, who frequently publishes underwater footage to her OneBreathDiver account, said that she ...

Mediterranean monk seals are among the rarest pinnipeds in the world. Zafer Kizilkaya / Oregon State University via Flickr under CC BY-SA 2.0 When summer tourism heats up, Mediterranean monk seals ...